So I bought Stitch n Bitch after deciding I was going to graduate from knitting to purling and all the rest. After mastering (or so I think) the techniques, I thought I'd shoot for the Queen of hearts bikini top. But for some reason, it turned out like this:

The string coming out of the top leads to the ball of yarn... that's where I'm supposed to crochet the strap? It's pretty obvious I did something wrong, but I don't know what. Is it because I left out the hearts? I didn't understand that part of the pattern (nor did I want hearts on my nipples). Help? How do I get from manta ray to bikini cup?

I'm not exactly a knitting doctor (or expert) but, leaving out the hearts shouldn't do that. I knitted the exact same bikini this summer (sans hearts) and it turned out fine. The only advice I can really offer is to give it another go, and see if you can catch your mistake that you made.Good luck!

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"I have prepared one of my own timecapsules. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."-Alfred Hitchcock

I did the same thing when I knit mine... I thought I'd skip over the heart, and ended up skipping over that ever so important part of the pattern where they tell you to knit/purl something like 26 rows.... You should have a fat base of rows at the bottom before you start the middle decreases.